Memorial to Queen from Women of Great Britain and Ireland
A meeting at 36 Kensington Square London formed an executive committee for a memorial to the Queen from the women of Britain and Ireland protesting Turkish atrocities in Bulgaria. The memorial calls on the government to act with European powers to stop the horrors and seeks signatures.
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Great Britain and Ireland
Kensington Square
London
F. E. Albert
Ashuret Biggs
8. C. Hall
F. Cashel Hoey
F. A. Kortright
Anna Perrier
Rawsthorne
Arabella Shore
A. Sonnenschein
Howard Taylor
Lewis Farley
Fanny E. Albert
Bedford-gardens
Wampden-hill
Great Britain
Ireland
Bulgaria
Turkey
Europe
Appeal for Morley church and Manningham church extension
A letter appeals for support toward a new Congregational church in Morley to replace the unsafe old chapel and preserve historic links to figures like Major Greathead and Edmund Waller. It notes the planned 7,000 pound building cost and seeks help from wealthy Nonconformists. The second appeal urges funds for Manningham church expansion amid a growing population of 25,000 and competing local chapels already at capacity.
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Congregationalists
Harrogate
Knaresbro
Whitby
Ilkley
Bowling
Morley
England
Firat
Greathead
Adwalton Moor
Samuel Wales
Geo. Southey
Dorothy
Edmund Waller
Beaconsfield
County of Bucks
Lady Loughborough
Alexander Wedderburn
the Common Pleas
Baron Loughborough
Leicester
Morley Old
Titus Salt, Bart
Church of Christ
Manningham
J. G. Miall
Manningham Church
Canon Mitton
Village Congregationalism and Rural Pastoral Duty
A rural pastor argues Congregationalism must be sustained in villages. He urges ministers to sow spiritual work beyond centers, notes Devon coast beauty, isolation, and lack of travel funds, and rejects surrender while seeking support for village ministry. Dated Hartland September 18, 1876.
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Devon
Congregational Union of England and Wales
Bradford
Ecclesiæ
Hartland
Swedenborgs visions of other worlds debated in Belgravia reply
A letter to the Str. explains that a rebuttal by Thos. Mackereth F.R.A.S. was prepared regarding Mr. R A aroctor's Belgravia article on Swedenborgs visions of other worlds. The author notes magazine rules blocked publication, and that the reply will appear elsewhere.
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Str
R. A. Aroctor
Swedenborg
Gladstone critiques Derby on Eastern Question policy
Mr Gladstone in a letter to the Times and Daily News assesses Lord Derby's speeches as a ministerial manifesto. He argues the government has not respected European duties toward Sultan subjects, blocked European concert, and delayed informing Parliament about Bulgarian outrages. He lists sixteen points where Derby's views differ from his own, defending liberal governance and warning against Russian claims in Constantinople.
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Mr. Gladstone
Times and
Daily News
Lord Derby
Gladstone
Europe
Turkey
Besika Bay
United Kingdom
Bulgaria
H. Elliot
Porte
Naples
Baring
Lord Palmerston
Stratford de Redcliffe
Russia
Constantinople
Roumania
Proctor Critique and Swedenborg Compared in Theological Debate
A letter argues that Mr Proctor’s statements are presented as scientific facts and that Swedenborgian spiritual intercourse, whether proven or disproven, should be tested against a central theological book. The writer notes that this book has faced similar critique to Swedenborg’s Earths in the Universe, recently challenged by Proctor.
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Proctor
Swedenborg
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